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Making homemade pizza dough at home is really quite easy. A few simple ingredients, a bit of rising time, and voila, perfect pizza right at home. Once you have your pizza dough you can customize your pizza with your favorite toppings. In our big family everyone likes different toppings so we created the “pizza buffet”. Pizza buffets are fun to create. Start with our easy homemade pizza dough or buy some ready made crusts from a store like Trader Joe’s. One of the best parts of making a pizza buffet is involving your kids in the cooking process. Kids love to measure ingredients, watch how the dough rises, and create their own pizza pies. Kids who cook their food are also much more likely to eat it!

Homemade Pizza Dough

This recipe is tried and true. We make this dough every week for school lunch on Tuesdays and over 100 kids enjoy it every week. Only 6 ingredients and your dough is ready. The dough is forgiving, it can rise for only 10 minutes or up to 2 hours. Once your dough is ready you will need to top it. For your pizza buffet set up some small bowls and let each person create a pizza. Here are some of our favorite toppings:

The only other items you need for a pizza buffet are some individual or smaller sized pizza pans. Our favorite pans are these adorable mini pizza pans. These 7 inch pans can be used for a personal pizza for everyone in your family or those attending your party. This recipe makes 4- 12 inch pizza crusts, or 8-12 mini pizza crusts, depending on how thick you like your crust.

36 thoughts on “Easy homemade pizza dough”

Thank you for this! I have been wanting to attempt making my own but have been scared to try. I will give your recipe a go! Maybe we can put that expensive pizza stone to use that we got 2 years ago for Christmas! LOL

I promise you that this recipe is really easy! It will taste so great on that pizza stone you have. You only need to have 6 ingredients, and I am pretty sure you already have the water, flour, sugar and salt already!